LIC: In Celebration of Tu BiShvat: A Poetry Reading

Event date: 
02/10/2020 - 6:30pm

Join Book Culture LIC on Monday, February 10th at 6:30pm as we welcome Rosebud Ben-Oni, Justin Boening, Shamar Hill, Miller Wolf Oberman, and Devon Walker-Figueroa who will read from their work, centering around the idea of poetry as a "seeding, scattering and dispersing" in honor of Tu BiShvat, the Jewish holiday that celebrates the "New Year of the Trees." 


Rosebud Ben-Oni is the winner of the 2019 Alice James Award for If This Is the Age We End Discovery, forthcoming in 2021, and the author of turn around, BRXGHT XYXS (Get Fresh Books, 2019). She is a recipient of fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) and CantoMundo. Her work appears in POETRY, The American Poetry Review, POETS.org, The Poetry Review (UK), Tin House, Guernica, Black Warrior Review, Prairie Schooner, Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading, TriQuarterly, Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Journal, Hunger Mountain, The Adroit Journal, The Southeast Review, North American Review, Salamander, Poetry Northwest, among others. Her poem "Poet Wrestling with Angels in the Dark" was commissioned by the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York City, and published by The Kenyon Review Online.  She writes for The Kenyon Reviewblog. She is currently editing a special chemistry poetry portfolio for Pleiades, and is finishing a series called The Atomic Sonnets, in honor of the Periodic Table’s 150th Birthday. Find her at 7TrainLove.org

Justin Boening is the author of Not on the Last Day, but on the Very Last, a winner of the 2015 National Poetry Series, as well as Self-Portrait as Missing Person, which was awarded a Poetry Society of America National Chapbook Fellowship. He is a recipient of the "Discovery"/Boston Review Poetry Prize, a work-study scholarship from the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference, a Stadler Fellowship from Bucknell University, and a Henry David Thoreau Fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center. His poetry and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in publications such as Denver Quarterly, Kenyon Review Online, Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly, Narrative, and TYPO, among others. A graduate of Columbia University’s School of the Arts, Boening is currently a senior editor at Poetry Northwest, and is cofounding editor at Horsethief Books.

Shamar Hill, a Cave Canem Fellow, is the recipient of numerous awards including a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship and a scholarship from Fine Arts Work Center. He has been published or has work forthcoming in Poetry Northwest, Washington Square Review, Day One, Southern Humanities Review, and Kenyon Review Online. He is working on a poetry collection, Photographs of an Imagined Childhood, and a memoir, In Defiance of All True Things. Shamar is the Director of Institutional Giving & Stewardship at the Academy of American Poets.

Miller Wolf Oberman is a former Ruth Lilly Fellow as well as a 2016 winner of the 92nd St Y’s Boston Review/ Discovery Prize. His translation of selections from the “Old English Rune Poem” won Poetry’s John Frederick Nims Memorial Prize For Translation in 2013. Miller's first book The Unstill Ones, a collection of poems and Old Englishtranslations was published in September 2017 by Princeton University Press.

Devon Walker-Figueroa is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the 2018 recipient of New England Review's Emerging Writer Award, Walker-Figueroa’s poetry can be found in such publications as the American Poetry Review, Lana Turner, The Harvard Advocate, Ploughshares, New England Review, Tin House Online, and Los Angeles Review of Books.

 

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Not on the Last Day, But on the Very Last: Poems By Justin Boening Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781571314871
Published: Milkweed Editions - October 11th, 2016

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Published: Princeton University Press - October 10th, 2017